She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy: but her manners were excellent.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

' After musing for some time, he said, 'I wonder how I should have any enemies; for I do harm to nobody.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Anticipating the arrival of General Sherman at Savannah his army entirely foot-loose, Hood being then before Nashville, Tennessee, the Southern railroads destroyed, so that it would take several months to re-establish a through line from west to east, and regarding the capture of Lee's army as the most important operation towards closing the rebellion—I sent orders to General Sherman on the 6th of December, that after establishing a base on the sea-coast, with necessary garrison, to include all his artillery and cavalry, to come by water to City Point with the balance of his command.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Beneath the straw hat, an eager, freckled little face turned to the right and to the left, plainly searching for some one.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The Fairy then said to Cinderella: “Well, you see here an equipage fit to go to the ball with; are you not pleased with it?” “Oh! yes,” cried she; “but must I go thither as I am, in these nasty rags?”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The dying child held the young man's hand in one of hers; with the other she slowly lifted the trifling memorial she had assigned especially for him, aloft in the air.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Had it not been for some such reason, I believe he would have been soon expelled by his own sex; for surely he had no strict title to be preferred to the English gentry; nor did they seem inclined to show him any extraordinary favour.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"If it hadn't been for my strength of character, you'd have taken an unfurnished flat without heat and with no elevator, at nine hundred a year, when you had just sworn me to steam heat, an elevator, furniture, and eight hundred.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

My sight has almost entirely failed, my general health is equally bad, and my long-faded spirits owe their best support to religion, and to the affection of yourself and Henry.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

Independence did not significantly affect the judicial system, however, and, except for their new allegiance, state and local officials conducted public business much as they had in the 1760's.
— from The Fairfax County Courthouse by Ruby Waldeck

She had stored here many [234] other curious articles: pieces of shiny tin foil, which she may have used as mirrors; bits of broken glass, and scraps of narrow, bright ribbon, intended for tying the boxes, all showing that she had an eye for decorative art.
— from Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

She had still, however, an eye for the servants: No servant at table use sauc'ly to talk, Lest tongue set at large out of measure do walk; No lurching, no snatching, no striving at all, Lest one go without, and another have all.
— from In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Hewlett

The weight, or the second dose of the stimulant, had an effect, for Miss Durant felt the body quiver, and then the eyes unclosed.
— from Wanted—A Match Maker by Paul Leicester Ford

Although it was prohibited me to go to her house, yet I made it a study how to meet her out of doors, and, without being seen, to see her, and even follow her from a distance.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

She had an eye for beauty, but she was not contemplative.
— from The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey

Son of the great minister who had brought the mother of James to the scaffold, Salisbury had already extorted forgiveness for that execution from the feeble king.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

In the roadside scenery, however, an eye fresh from Berkshire observed one pleasing characteristic appearing to be singular.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent